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TITLE

Easter floods keep shoppers away as stores escape the worst of the damage

AUTHOR(S)

Kidd, Andrew

PUB. DATE

April 1998

SOURCE

Cabinet Maker;04/17/98, Issue 5084, p2

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on the impact of the Easter floods to the furniture business in the Midlands, Oxfordshire and East Anglia in Great Britain. Comments of Richard Kimbell store deputy manager Emma Watson on the slow buyers traffic; Steady flow of customers at Westmede Furnishers despite the weather; Estimated cost of damage brought by the floods.

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